QA Engineer (Playwright/Cypress, Azure DevOps, API Automation) – Contract – Sandton (in-office)

Recruiter:

Datafin IT Recruitment

Job Ref:

181514

Date posted:

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Experience | Skills | Capability: • Degree or diploma including 4+ years' working experience in the testing competency, covering both automated and manual testing. • AZ-900 certification and other Azure certifications relevant to QA. • Experience with test automation and continuous integration\/delivery tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, JMeter, Selenium, RestAssured, and RestSharp. • Proficiency with Azure DevOps. • Hands-on experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps Pipelines and Test Plans, orchestrating load tests with Azure Load Testing, and instrumenting releases with Azure Monitor\/Application Insights. • Support the maintenance and enhancement of the CI\/CD pipeline. • Strong technical knowledge and an ability to train development teams in the usage of test frameworks and infrastructure. • Ability to navigate SQL or run queries to set up test data and validate technical aspects of initiatives. • Knowledge of REST API and web\/mobile GUI testing, as well as experience writing automated API tests. • Familiarity with AI-enabled testing tools and enthusiasm for exploring emerging approaches. • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; comfortable working in agile, DevOps-oriented environments. Result: • Automated regression, API, and performance suite coverage of critical user journeys. • Improved release cycle time through reliable, fast feedback loops. • Reduced defect escape rate to production year-on-year. • CI\/CD pipeline health dashboards surface quality gates and AI-generated test insights in real time. • Development teams adopt automation best practice through coaching and enablement. • Test plans and test cases are maintained and improved. • Defect management is clear, consistent, and traceable. • Regression maintenance is actively managed. • Active participation in the QA guild and QA community. • Undertake any reasonable duties, aligned to your skills, that are required to achieve team objectives.

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